Biography
Alessandro Busci, painter and architect, was born in Milan in 1971.
Graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis in Art History (prof. Flavio Caroli), Busci explores the potential of the exchange between Western and Eastern iconographic traditions. His work is distinguished by the strong value of the pictorial and calligraphic mark, created on unconventional supports such as steel, copper, and aluminum treated with acids and enamels, or on the more traditional paper.
Alessandro Busci's painting has achieved a perfect synthesis after intense years of apprenticeship and refinement. Initially, it might have been simply framed within figuration, even with the magmatic materiality of corten steel supports treated with water and acids. Gradually, however, it has taken on less predictable and obvious forms. Firstly, the line, which from merely descriptive has become allusive, and this new articulation is the result of a technical agility where precision has given way to a gestural representation reminiscent of the oriental style. Then, the color, whose purpose is no longer to reproduce reality or a semblance of reality, although always in the lyrical orange tones of corroded iron, which is a hallmark of his style, rather to highlight (with reds and blues) moods, in the purest programmatic intent of abstraction, not even disdaining effects dear to tachisme. Finally, the subjects, not only the architectures or urban views dear to Postmodernism, but with more insistence on the natural landscape or natural elements, in their symbolic and romantic strength, tornadoes, volcanoes, the rugged peaks of mountains, birch forests in convincing close-ups.
Thus, Busci's figuration today increasingly tends towards the informal, of great scenic power, at times violent in gesture, with decidedly expressionist tones. Moreover, Busci was one of the champions of the second wave of the so-called "Milanese workshop," which in the late 1990s revived, at least in Italy, the languages of tradition - painting and sculpture - reinventing them after the cold and fashionable period of minimalism and more self-referential experimentalism.
